Dear David Sounds good - the inherent difficulty is the skills that each person brings to the task. Providing people with a few preparatory exercise using neutral scenarios can trigger more informed responses. That is, when we know something about what we are being asked to reflect about, we can often extend our account Which us useful in a personal sense as well as a group sense. Still, we are trapped in the land of poets and poets are best at revealing hat otherwise can not be seeen. Yes, some designers and some business people etc. can also be good at this. It is a way of apprehending reality that is not culturally generally supported And it is a way of being that few can sustain And it is a rare aptitude. Cheers keith On 7/02/2015 12:55 pm, "David Sless" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >But there is yet another way that I have found useful, and that is to >work with metaphors that enabled us as embedded participants to make a >small difference in the world we work in. In what we call the scoping >stage, we begin by inviting people to make pictures of the world from >their position in the landscape. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------